>There are plenty of ways that upper management can stay in the dark. In the case of Deepwater Horizon, BP didn't make the decisions that lead to the blowout, but created excessive pressure for cost-cutting. In the case of Barings Bank, the managers were genuinely unaware of the rogue trader's fraud, but allowed him to bypass internal controls.

I read this as an exec saying: "Just get it done. I don't care how it's done, and I don't want to know how it's done, just do it."

May have watched too many movies, but whatever is more plausible is usually correct.